Malick W. Ghachem

Malick W. Ghachem serves as Professor of History and Head of the History Faculty at MIT, with additional affiliation as a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies. His scholarship focuses on legal and constitutional history, particularly slavery, abolition, and revolutionary movements in the Atlantic world.

Education:

• PhD in History, Stanford University
• JD, Harvard Law School
• BA, Harvard College

Research Focus:

• Comparative slavery law in colonial Haiti
• Constitutional developments during revolutions
• Historical connections between slavery and contemporary legal systems
• Academic freedom and university governance

His influential book 'The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution' received the American Historical Association's J. Russell Major Prize and the Caribbean Studies Association's Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize.